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Assuming the government is still configures according to the provisions in the Constitution in 2016 just why would anything be different after the 2016 election? We all work hard to get our guys elected and send them to Washington. When our guys get to Washington they are not our guys anymore. They personally gain far more by becoming part of the Ruling Class than they possibly can by continuing with the principles they were sent to Congress with. That applies even if they should lose their re-elections. The government has reached a size such that the corruption is all consuming.

And remember that almost all of the people we send to Congress are politicians or they would not be running in the first place. In a small government with few regulatory agencies politics is much simpler. Your representatives do not have the opportunities for immense wealth by joining a corrupt system. When the corporations and individuals must get permission from a regulatory agency for just about everything then the corruption is all consuming. It is much more profitable for a politician to partake.< P>A system that has grown that large cannot be reformed. It can only collapse or be overthrown. If overthrown the system that replaces will start out corrupt and very large. If it collapses then the replacement will probably be the Man On A Horse. When a republican and free market system with a large population becomes wealthy it becomes rich enough to support a great number of people who do not produce. There are the Academics and journalists and the trustfunders who do not produce but have the time and the resources to engage in utopian fantasies and there is the ever larger number of welfare people. Nonproducers do not understand that wealth must be created and fall into the dream that wealth is constant and that everything would be better if it were all shared out equally. The resources controlled by these groups and their votes guarantee that the free market system cannot survive.